As a kid, Maine Halloween trick or treating, what a concept I thought with glee. Going up to total strangers houses with your cousins, ringing the bell after hopping up the front porch stairs and the light comes on. An older lady or gentlemen look a fake surprise or fright and everyone screams "Trick or Treat"! Other goblins up and down the street are moving like the plague from house to house as most front porch lights are on. As an adult, can still remember the houses where the best treats were. And before the Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter social networking, word spread on which home owners took this Halloween concept seriously and went all out. Kids spread the word on homes, neighbors to put on the must visit list before curfew and the ones not worth door knocking, that... 10/31/2009

     Activerain's Bob Stewart threw down the challenge gauntlet searcing for examples of how we use the treasure chest of blog posts to do further good in our day to day real estate operation. There are many ways we take the trip back in to the blog post inventory and assemble a series of them to ricochet email correspondence back to the sender. We have a connection with a past client and these "what is going on in the area newsy blog posts" bee-lined to their inbox help us stay connected. For past happy buyers who decide to sell, or have friends to refer. For sellers to keep us in their mind. We start a relationship that eventually with these emails with blog attachments push them off the fence, eventually.      But probably the two top ways we use the AR library is targeted at relocat... 10/30/2009

In Maine, we are very fortunate to have super medical facilities in place, staffed by folks who want a friendly, crime free, pollution free area to raise a famly in. So unless you need a brain transplant, or plan to upgrade all your major organs with loaners, Maine health care in the Houlton Maine area is superb. The same goes with local Houlton ME banking, financing institutions. So we don't have to scramble out of town to catch an attractive loan program, or a local professional that understands the ins and outs, the mechanics. I just got back from a Maine Association of REALTOR state convention at the Samoset in Rockland ME. The many southern Maine loan orginators and mortgage brokers who have hospitality suites after classes wonder how to get more of Northern Maine's bank buying cus... 10/12/2009

     In buying real estate, folks look at the purse, decide if the price tag matches the size of that purse or wallet. But just as important as the cost, the looks, the features involves a move to a brand new unknown area. The hospital if mom is coming and has a heart condition is a big concern. The local public library I have had real estate buyers say is their judge, barometer for how stellar an area is. The schools for a quality education are another area the relocating real estate buyer is very keen to know more about. All schools, hospitals, libraries are not the same quality, possessing the same level of excellence or reputation as the ones they are leaving behind. So part of our blog posts about the Houlton Maine area delve into the big three.      Videos that show the excellent ... 10/10/2009

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     You work for say homeland security, for border patrol, customs, immigration or some new department in between and are assigned to head to Houlton Maine. Houlton is on the Canadian border of the New Brunswick province and has been beefed up secuirty wise considerably since 9/11. So you own a home back where you are coming from, have it rented and want to rent until it sells in Houlton.      Easy as pie right? Not really. Not so fast, need to have a little talk, show you the financial reasons why it's like musical chairs..with not enough empty chairs when the tunes stop, everyone scrambles. A typical home if you can find one rents for $450 to $600 on average with you the renter picking up all the utilities, lawn care, snow plowing. By the time you heat the place, you start thinking w... 09/17/2009

Fall rally stock, superstock and master car racers head to Houlton Maine to gravity race this weekend.  The engineered derby hill is being spiffed up after the Northern Maine race this June.  Learn about derby racing at the NMSBD race.  Boys and girls from around the nation will show up for our spring and fall rallies to learn driving skills, to race for points to head to Akron Ohio's world series of racing. Northern Maine's race was the world's largest derby event in the country five years in a row.. 1997-2001. Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Learn About Maine, See Videos, Read Posts. 09/15/2009

Outside your real estate operation, do you have flowers or is everything paved, brick, institutionized office look? Maine flowers are short lived but new ones come in before, after each season if you stagger it right. Here is a peek our my front door in Houlton Maine. I am lucky to live half the year 32 feet from work..and to zip to a lake home the other half nine miles away. Here's are today's actors.                                                                                                         Got to find out what is nibbling the heck out of the hollyhoc plants though..hmmmm. Show us flowers from your end of the world, your place on the planet. ME REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Four Season Beauty, 4th Lowest Crime State, Low Cost Real Estate. 08/17/2009

Say it with video...let's watch the Maine events rather than talk about them! For starters, on a summer night, when it's Thursday, you head for the park to hear McGill's Band.   You have kids who don't want to wait until they are sixteen to drive a car. This is where they learn the "thrill of the hill" and how to soap box derby race on our own engineer hill. The Northern Maine Soap Box Derby race was the nation's largest five years in a row with close to 200 racers competing.  You would enjoy the Meduxnekeag River Canoe Race too.... You like parades, fair food and rides..and want to see the exhibits, fireworks and just what the Houlton Agriculture Fair is all about.   Lakes..lots of lakes in the Houlton Maine area..and this is what Drews Lake looks like....   It's winter and we don't hi... 07/22/2009

All of a sudden, a picturesque small Northern Maine town that is mild mannered, wholesome and law abiding becomes chaos. Helter skelter. Batton down the hatches, hoist the sail, we're going ashore. Oh oh. Pirates invade downtown Houlton  ME for Midnight Madness, a retailer's delight. The 4th of July is a big deal in small Maine local communities. Everyone, I mean everyone volunteers to help put the event on from the state agricultural fair's exhibits, horse and small animal judging to the parades, fireworks, rides and food provided to local and out of towners who meander in for the nation's birthday. Here's is a video snapshot of Houlton Maine's Midnight Madness and a glimpse of other parts of the four day 4th of July celebration. ME Realtor Andrew Mooers - Maine, Friendly People, Fewer... 07/08/2009

Why Wait Until You Are 16 To Drive A Car. The Video For The Houlton Maine, Derby Hill Northern ME Soap Box Derby Race And We Saved You A Seat Track Side, Under A Tarp With Some Good Food, Friendly Race Fans And Local Community Aroostook/Penobscot/Washington County Family Sporting Fun! This Is One More Local Events That Draws Racers, Their Parents, Supporters From Two Hours Away To Experience "The Thrill Of The Hill!"   Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine Families Make Their Own Home Made Local Community Fun.Visit The Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Website! 06/22/2009

Fewer people in rural Maine means more involvement of those people to make their own fun. Home grown not store bought and way way more involvement in local Maine community events.  There are so many events that you have to pace yourself and be careful not to get over involved, over extended. But when you are planning to be at the local happening, might as well be part of putting it on is the motto of many hard working local Maine citizens that live and work in these smaller, off the beaten path towns. For example, this weekend, June 20th is the 14th Annual Northern Maine Soap Box Derby race. Houlton ME has its own Derby Hill specially engineered like the one in Akron Ohio at the All American Soap Box Derby event every kid dreams of being in. The Houlton ME event has led to success in Ak... 06/16/2009

     One new Houlton ME police officer from Southern Florida, the other from North Carolina and both say same thing. Where they came from, law enforcement was reactive...reacting to a crime here, there, all the time. In Maine, the 4th lowest crime state, both says law enforcement here is pro-active. They get into the schools for the DARE program, teach students police are not bad, or the enemy or someone to be afraid of or avoided.      There is a citizens academy where seminars on law enforcement and how the public can help are held in Houlton Maine. The participants of a citizen's group get certificates and understand better the job and challenges police officers have.      Where you have wall to wall people, crime comes with the territory as the population squeezes in, the traffic in... 06/12/2009

What is the local community like? Don't just tell them. Show them with local community videos of the area you peddle real estate in. Tell the 85% of folks who go on line to look for real estate, to search out and research a new area they know nothing about that you saved them the best seat in the house at the local events. Take them to school events, local sporting events, a tour of the downtown, a run down of the local banks, etc. Show them the local lakes, the video for all the local churches. Invite them into your canoe and take them down the annual spring races and serve them up a hot dog on the other end. Be friendly, be helpful, shoot - edit- post local community video. You the broker are the local tour guide, the guy or gal that lives here. Don't just write about, blog about, bra... 06/09/2009

Why real estate for a job? What lead to this decision and how many years have your been listing, marketing, selling real estate? What's your story and do you have one to tell, share? Other cultures want you to sit down, tell them about you, your family so they can decide if they want to do business or not with you. Unlike the American way to whip out a contract, tap your fingers with impatience and keep looking at your watch to try your darndest to speed the process along because you are busy, on the clock. What is your story? Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers 06/08/2009

They did it, the class of 2009 of Houlton Maine High School made it together to graduation at the Millar Civic Center Thursday night for the ceremony at 7pm June 4th, 2009. You are front and center in the best seat in the house to witness the event, the speakers, the graduate, the party afterwards during Project Graduation at the Houlton ME lodge of Elks. Great job class..stick together and never forget your hometown classmates, friends, relatives and experience in Houlton Maine! Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers Maine, Get Here Just As Quick As You Can. 06/05/2009

     What's an area built from, what are the schools like, how involved are the communities? This Maine Houlton High School Senior Last Chapel video helps show a glimpse of that.  Schools in small Maine towns are a vital part of the local community.      Parents, grandparents, friends, neighbors all take part in raising the youth whether thru little league, thru church, actual teaching or hiring them as workers.      A real estate broker in that small town shows the events that happen here on line with local community videos. Relatives many states away can take a peek at the events and feel connected, able to stay in touch. And folks considering moving here with children, can see how their kids will fit in, where they will be going to school, etc. Local Maine community videos are import... 06/02/2009

Lots and lots of new car racers for the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Race. Watch the movie highlights of the derby tech day, trial runs to get the drivers ready for the big race June 20th, 2009. Houlton Maine's race was the largest in the nation five years running. Kids in this 14th day of racing on our own engineered hill learn the "Thrill of the Hill. Visit the NMSBD website. Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine is local community minded folks who cherish families. 05/31/2009

Grand older Victorian homes, or Colonials from back during the revolution. Northern Maine's Aroostook County is relatively young with Joseph Houlton cruising in back around 1807. So the historic, older antique Maine homes label means different things here than say Boston Massachusetts where Plymouth Rock reminds locals of the age of the places.  Houlton Maine is on the historic register and the downtown Market Square has the original charm and layout. Many towns during the 1970's rejuvenation process removed the charm, replacing it with chrome and glass and now regret that decision. Quick spin to show a glimpse of Houlton Maine banks and the local area video. Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine Living Is Healthy, People Helpful, Scenery And Wildlife Plentiful. 05/05/2009

   This past Saturday things were busy in small town Houlton Maine. Opening ceremonies for the Little League at the New Field Of Dreams Complex dedication, the local Meduxnkeag River Canoe Race started back in the 1960's, the 7th anniversary of the Southern Aroostook Farmer's Museum in Littleton Maine, and the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby fund raiser dinner at the Houlton Lodge of Elks. Yeah. Not much happens in a small Maine town. Right.      As Joe Broker, capture it, post it, get involved and share it with real estate buyers. They see it. May consider your area if you would just get it shot, edited, on line. Don't do it, and the neat place where you live is the best kept secret. Hop in the canoe. (Motioning) And here. Take this paddle and life vest while you are in the Maine canoe r... 05/03/2009